DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Ballston town
[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]

Subject Number Percent Subject Number Percent

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT       NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH    
     Population 3 years and over            Total poplulation 8,716 100.0
      enrolled in school 2,205 100.0   Native 8,500 97.5
Nursery school, preschool 142 6.4       Born in United States 8,426 96.7
Kindergarten 164 7.4           State of residence 6,918 79.4
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 988 44.8           Different state 1,508 17.3
High school (grades 9-12) 533 24.2       Born outside United States 74 0.8
College or graduate school 378 17.1   Foreign born 216 2.5
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 30 0.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 167 1.9
  Population 25 years and over 6,019 100.0       Not a citizen 49 0.6
Less than 9th grade 168 2.8        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 516 8.6   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,514 25.2     Total (excluding born at sea) 216 100.0
Some college, no degree 1,163 19.3   Europe 113 52.3
Associate degree 701 11.6   Asia 58 26.9
Bachelor's degree 1,136 18.9   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 821 13.6   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 26 12.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 88.6 (X)   Northern America 19 8.8
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 32.5 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 8,172 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 6,874 100.0   English only 7,758 94.9
Never married 1,478 21.5   Language other than English 414 5.1
Now married, except separated 4,271 62.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 128 1.6
Separated 121 1.8   Spanish 104 1.3
Widowed 520 7.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 39 0.5
 Female 429 6.2   Other Indo-European languages 263 3.2
Divorced 484 7.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 67 0.8
 Female 300 4.4   Asian and Pacific Island languages 40 0.5
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 22 0.3
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 8,716 100.0
           under 18 years 64 100.0     Total ancestries reported 11,149 127.9
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 8 12.5   Arab 35 0.4
        Czech¹ 96 1.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 27 0.3
          Civilian population 18 years and over 6,426 100.0   Dutch 383 4.4
Civilian veterans 874 13.6   English 1,428 16.4
        French (except Basque)¹ 788 9.0
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 274 3.1
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 1,895 21.7
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,900 100.0   Greek 70 0.8
With a disability 117 6.2   Hungarian 73 0.8
     Population 21 to 64 years 4,879 100.0   Irish¹ 2,038 23.4
With a disability 525 10.8   Italian 1,209 13.9
 Percent employed 51.2 (X)   Lithuanian 56 0.6
No disability 4,354 89.2   Norwegian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 85.5 (X)   Polish 840 9.6
     Population 65 years and over 1,087 100.0   Portuguese 7 0.1
With a disability 318 29.3   Russian 127 1.5
        Scotch-Irish 169 1.9
        Scottish 329 3.8
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 23 0.3
  Population 5 years and over 8,172 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 5,283 64.6   Swedish 132 1.5
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 2,850 34.9   Swiss 12 0.1
 Same county 1,523 18.6   Ukrainian 69 0.8
 Different county 1,327 16.2   United States or American 316 3.6
  Same state 953 11.7   Welsh 96 1.1
  Different state 374 4.6   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 39 0.5   Other ancestries 657 7.5
 
Date: September 10, 2003
 
-Represent zero or rounds to zero.    (X) Not applicable.
¹ The data represent a combination of two ancestries shown separately in Summary File 3. Czech includes Czechoslovakian. French includes Alsatian. French Canadian includes Acadian/Cajun. Irish includes Celtic.
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000.